— — the boat that crosses while you wait.
“A small terminal at the end of Main Street, where the green-and-white boat to Kingston pulls in every forty minutes. The dock cleats are sized for a vessel that carries cars by the hundred. Behind the loading lanes the town climbs a single block to a coffee shop and a bookstore; ahead, the Olympics carry the western horizon. The water is grey-green, the colour of cold milk and kelp. Gulls work the wake. Foot passengers walk on through a covered ramp; drivers wait in lanes painted on the asphalt, engines off, windows cracked for the salt air. A working terminal in a quiet town, with one of the Sound's better evening views built in. — from the studio
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The Edmonds ferry terminal sits at the foot of Main Street in downtown Edmonds, Washington, about 15 miles north of Seattle on the Puget Sound. It is the eastern end of the Edmonds-Kingston route, one of the busiest in the Washington State Ferries system, with vessels crossing roughly every 40 to 50 minutes during the day. The route shaves more than an hour off the drive around the Sound for traffic bound for the Olympic Peninsula. The terminal sits beside the BNSF rail line and is a short walk from the downtown business district, the Edmonds Marina, and the public fishing pier at Brackett's Landing.
Edmonds faces almost due west across the Sound to the Kitsap Peninsula and the Olympic Mountains. In the hour before sunset, the western sky lights up behind the silhouette of the range and the Kingston-bound boat moves through that light as it pulls away from the slip. The water tone is the cool, green-grey of cold inland sea, with a band of brighter Sound-blue between the kelp line and the far shore. Photographers gather on the public pier at Brackett's Landing North, just north of the slip, to catch the moment the ferry crosses the sun. Winter sunsets are the most dramatic; summer evenings stay light past 9:00 p.m.
The terminal operates daily, with the first sailing around 5:30 a.m. and the last around 1:00 a.m. Walk-on passengers can buy tickets at the terminal or use the Good To Go app; vehicles can reserve a sailing in advance through the WSDOT site to skip the standby line, which can run two hours long on summer weekends. Foot passengers and cyclists board through a covered overhead walkway. A train platform shared with Sounder and Amtrak Cascades runs alongside the terminal, so the ferry connects directly to commuter rail. The terminal is being rebuilt under the Edmonds Multimodal project; the current facility will eventually move to a new site.